Chapter 297: Giving You Face
By the end of November, evenings in Rongdu were already quite cold.
Wang Heng didn’t go back all day, sometimes taking the bus, sometimes walking on his own, wandering around the urban area of Rongdu City from morning until evening. If his route were drawn on a map, it would look like he was a headless fly, purely darting around randomly.
It got dark.
Turning a corner at an intersection, Wang Heng suddenly realized that the street ahead looked familiar. After careful distinction, he realized he had indeed been here—when he was walking Ye Xun home.
This was near Ye Xun’s home.
When he went out in the morning, he had only worn a hoodie, and now walking in the night wind, he couldn’t help shivering from time to time.
“Forget it, it’s about time to head back…”
Wang Heng thought this, planning to turn at the intersection ahead and go to the subway station.
However, at that moment, he heard a familiar crisp voice from behind: “Wang Heng senior male student, are you here to find me?”
Turning around, he saw Ye Xun about ten meters away.
The young girl was wearing loose sporty school uniform, with a simple refreshing ponytail, extremely plain, yet possessing the unique youthful beauty of a 17-year-old girl.
She stood there, staring at Wang Heng, her face with a faint smile faintly showing a trace of expectation, as well as surprise.
Wang Heng strode up to her and said, “Just taking a stroll, happened to stroll here.”
Ye Xun blinked: “Taking the subway here to stroll?”
Wang Heng: “No, I basically walked here.”
Ye Xun was slightly surprised: “That far! How long have you been walking?”
If it were before last night, Wang Heng would definitely find a more appropriate reason to avoid the girl overthinking. But now, he didn’t want to make up lies, so he simply told the truth.
“I’ve been wandering from morning until now. My mood is a bit… how to put it, my mind is a bit messy, so I thought of walking around. Of course, not all walking, I took the bus for a while in the afternoon.”
Hearing him say this, Ye Xun’s expression also became much more serious.
In the young girl’s impression, Wang Heng senior male student had always been a boy with a lot of goals, probably the type with exceptional talent and extra effort, otherwise how could he have accumulated so much wealth already as a first year university student, while his grades at school didn’t fall behind at all?
But wandering around the urban area all day—this kind of thing belonged to the confused behavior of a confused youth. Wang Heng senior male student actually had such lonely and bewildered moments too?
Ye Xun suddenly felt a bit heartbroken for him. Looking more closely, his clothes seemed a bit thin too, and the occasional foot-stomping in the cold wind was probably because he was freezing, right?
So she asked: “Senior male student, are you a bit cold?”
Wang Heng: “…A bit.”
Ye Xun smoothly invited: “Then do you want to come to my home and sit? My home has air conditioning, warming you up is definitely no problem.”
Wang Heng nodded: “Sure, thanks.”
He agreed so straightforwardly that it instead stunned Ye Xun for a moment. After all, in the young girl’s impression, no matter when or with what excuse she invited him, she always seemed to hit a soft nail. Unless it was that kind of particularly hard-to-refuse invitation, Wang Heng could always find a reasonable excuse, or pull others along.
Like now, the two of them alone together, and at her own home… this kind of thing was probably the first time, right?
Ye Xun couldn’t help her heartbeat accelerating, silently looking forward to it.
The two walked side by side toward her home.
Suddenly, Wang Heng glanced at the young girl’s side profile and couldn’t help recalling the events of the previous cycle, as well as the scene in last night’s dream.
Her fierce and vigorous in the ring, her shyly holding hands with him on the street… of course, and her on the hospital bed, with no color in her face.
Recalling all these, Wang Heng suddenly had the impulse to reach out and pull her into his arms.
No, can’t be impulsive.
At least now, it was far from the time to be impulsive.
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Entering Ye Xun’s home, Wang Heng knew her dinner arrangement.
Looking at the instant noodles in the young girl’s hand, he asked: “You’re just eating this?”
Ye Xun: “In another hour it’s evening study session, I still have to go back to school.”
Wang Heng: “Why not eat at a restaurant outside?”
Ye Xun softly explained: “Sometimes I do eat outside, but the instant noodles I bought online yesterday arrived, just preparing to try them today…”
Why buy instant noodles online? Because of discounts, cheap?
Wang Heng kind of wanted to ask Ye Xun, he had just given her eight thousand during summer vacation, why be so thrifty now? But thinking again, her father might still owe money, being frugal wasn’t unreasonable.
“How about we go out to eat?”
“Are you treating?” Ye Xun shook her head, “No, feels like always taking advantage of you.”
Wang Heng sighed, walked to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator and looked.
Then he turned his head and said: “Then I’ll cook.”
“You cook?” Ye Xun stared with wide eyes in astonishment, “You know how to cook?”
“A little bit. And I see your refrigerator has eggs, tomatoes and some green vegetables. You usually cook for yourself too, right, otherwise why put these in the refrigerator?”
“I can boil eggs, cold mixed tomatoes, boil green vegetables… does this count as cooking?”
Wang Heng: “No problem, anyway I’ll do it. By the way, do you have staples in the house?”
Ye Xun: “Only dried noodles, my father bought them last time he came back. Wait, you’re really going to cook?”
Seeing the full expectation on the young girl’s face, Wang Heng shrugged: “I haven’t eaten dinner either, let’s eat together conveniently.”
Ye Xun hurriedly asked: “So what are you planning to make?”
Wang Heng: “Noodles for you.”
The innocent young girl didn’t have any weird associations, just couldn’t help curiously asking: “What kind of noodles are you making? Will it use eggs?”
“Yes, tomato scrambled egg noodles. Young miss go wait outside, it’ll be ready soon, won’t delay your evening study session.”
Saying this, Wang Heng rolled up his sleeves, picked out two or three eggs and tomatoes from the refrigerator, and found the dried noodles.
Ye Xun followed behind: “Do you need my help?”
Wang Heng: “No need, you just be responsible for eating.”
Ye Xun: “That would be too embarrassing…”
Wang Heng: “You be responsible for washing dishes.”
Ye Xun: “Got it, I’m good at that!”
Wang Heng cracked the eggshell, poured the raw egg into a bowl. Picked up chopsticks, stirred the yolk and egg white, then turned his head and saw Ye Xun still behind him.
He casually asked: “Why are you staring at me here?”
“Just a bit curious… alright, won’t disturb you!”
Ye Xun bounced out of the kitchen, ran to her own bedroom, and closed the door.
Wang Heng smiled, ignored her, and silently continued with what he was doing.
Not to mention experience cooking at home, just from the previous cycle, he had cooked for Ye Xun more than once. Doing it again now felt quite familiar.
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